Free Courses

Learn about Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony and forms of orchestral music.

A focus on several techniques that are widely used in the analysis of high-dimensional data.

Learn about the rich diversity of Hindu sacred texts – hymns, narratives, philosophical thought – and their interpretations.

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about food molecules and how chemical reactions can affect food texture and flavor.

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

Explore the impact of the conquest dynasties and the world of the Ming.

Learn how to use R to implement linear regression, one of the most common statistical modeling approaches in data science.

Learn how global warming impacts human health, and the ways we can diminish those impacts.

Explore China’s imperial period, with a focus on the Song dynasty and the role of the exam system in government.

Learn how American women created, confronted, and embraced change in the 20th century while exploring ten objects from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library.

Learn about China’s origins, its integral early thinkers, and competing states and schools of thought.

Learn about the Qin and Han dynasties, and how Buddhism and ideas of self-realization influenced the medieval period.

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

Traces Albert Einstein’s engagement with relativity, quantum mechanics, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, the arts, and technology.

An in-depth look at the 1854 London cholera epidemic in Soho and its importance for the field of epidemiology.

Combine literary research with data science to find answers in unexpected ways. Learn basic coding tools to help save time and draw insights from thousands of digital documents at once.

An introduction to basic statistical concepts and R programming skills necessary for analyzing data in the life sciences.

An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.

Learn probability, an essential language and set of tools for understanding data, randomness, and uncertainty.

Learn salary negotiation techniques with this free, 15-minute Harvard Business School (HBS) Online lesson taught by Mike Wheeler of Negotiation Mastery.

Learn to use R programming to apply linear models to analyze data in life sciences.

Develop skills in digital research and visualization techniques across subjects and fields within the humanities.

Explore what makes cities energizing, amazing, challenging, and perhaps humanity’s greatest invention.

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

Use the case study method to study China from the rise of Deng Xiaoping to the present.

Examine how cultures of the ancient world defined themselves through literature and how their vision of literature contributes to our understanding of civilization, culture, and literature today.

Learn how to face and meet today’s challenges and design a public value proposition that is both actionable and value creating.

An overview of modern Chinese history, including the fall of the Qing and the end of imperial China.

An introduction to programming using Python, a popular language for general-purpose programming, data science, web programming, and more.

This course examines the Sikh scripture from a doctrinal and historical perspective by providing an overview of Sikh teachings as well as the historical context within which the scripture evolved and became canonized.